My Dear Sir, — I shall be very glad to see you whenever you will do me the favor to call. I think I am more
likely to be in the way between half-past eleven and twelve, than at any other time. I have glanced over the books you have been so kind
as to send me, and more particularly at the papers to which you called my attention. I have the greater pleasure in expressing my desire
to see you on this account. Apropos of the “construction” of “Caleb Williams,” do you know that
Godwin wrote it backwards, — the last volume first, — and that when he had produced the hunting down of Caleb, and
the catastrophe, he waited for months, casting about for a means of accounting for what he had done?

Faithfully yours always, Charles Dickens.

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Notes:

Note: Poe mentions this note in his essay “The Philosophy of Composition” (Graham’s Magazine,
April 1846).